Statement of Faith

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II Corinthians 10:5 "Casting down imaginations,
and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;"

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Statement Of Faith

(A) Priorities

1. The scientific aspects of creation are important, but are secondary in importance to the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

2. The doctrines of Creator and Creation cannot ultimately be divorced from the gospel of Jesus Christ.

(B) Basics

1. The 66 books of the Bible are the written Word of God. The Bible is divinely inspired and inerrant throughout. The King James Version(Authorized Version) is the Word of God preserved in the English language for English speaking people. It is the supreme authority in everything it teaches including science.

2. The final guide to the interpretation of Scripture is Scripture itself.

3. The account of origins presented in Genesis is a simple but factual presentation of actual events and therefore provides a reliable framework for scientific research into the question of the origin and history of life, mankind, the earth, and the universe.

4. The various original life-forms (kinds), including mankind, were made by direct creative acts of God. The living descendants of any of the original kinds (apart from man) may represent more than one species today, reflecting the genetic potential within the original kind. Only limited biological changes (including mutational deterioration) have occurred naturally within each kind since Creation.

5. The great Flood of Genesis was an actual historic event, worldwide (global) in its extent and effect.

6. The special creation of Adam (the first man) and Eve (the first woman), and their subsequent fall into sin, is the basis for the necessity of salvation for mankind.

7. Death (both physical and spiritual) and bloodshed entered into this world subsequent to and as a direct consequence of man’s sin.

(C) Theology

1. The Godhead is triune: one God, three Persons—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

2. All mankind are sinners, inherently from Adam and individually (by choice) and are therefore subject to God’s wrath and condemnation.

3. Freedom from the penalty and power of sin is available to man only through the sacrificial death and shed blood of Jesus Christ, and His complete and bodily Resurrection from the dead.

4. The Holy Spirit enables the sinner to repent and believe in Jesus Christ.

5. The Holy Spirit lives and works in each believer to produce the fruits of righteousness.

6. Salvation is a gift received by faith alone in Christ alone and expressed in the individual’s repentance, recognition of the death of Christ as full payment for sin, and acceptance of the risen Christ as Savior, Lord and God.

7. All things necessary for our salvation are either expressly set down in Scripture or may be deduced by good and necessary consequence from Scripture.

8. Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.

9. Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead, ascended to Heaven, and is currently seated at the right hand of God the Father, and shall return in person to this Earth as Judge of the living and the dead.

10. Satan is the personal spiritual adversary of both God and man.

11. Those who do not believe in Christ are subject to everlasting conscious punishment, but believers enjoy eternal life with God.

12. The only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman. God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of marriage.

13. THE LOCAL CHURCH-A local church is a congregation of immersed believers, associated by a covenant of faith and fellowship of the Gospel; observing the ordinances of Christ; governed by His Laws; and exercising the gifts, rights and privileges invested in them by His Word; that its only scriptural officers are bishops or pastors and deacons, whose qualifications, claims and duties are clearly defined in the Epistles of Timothy and Titus. The true mission of the church is the faithful witnessing of Christ to all men as we have the opportunity, and the building up and edifying of the saints. The local church has the absolute right of self-government free from the interference of any hierarchy of individuals or organizations; and that the one and only Head is Christ through the Holy Spirit.

14. ORDINANCES- Christian baptism is the immersion of the believer in water, in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, with authority of the local church, to show forth in solemn and beautiful emblem our faith in the crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, with its effect in our death to sin and resurrection to a new life; it is a prerequisite to church membership.

The Lord's Supper is the commemoration, by the use of unleavened bread and of the fruit of the vine of the death of Christ until He comes again; to be preceded always by solemn self-examination.

15. Religious Liberty: I believe in religious liberty; that every person has the right to practice and propagate his or her beliefs.

16. CIVIL GOVERNMENT-The Scriptures teach that civil government is of Divine appointment, for the interest and good order of human society; and that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honored and obeyed, except only in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the only Lord of the conscience, and coming Prince of the Kings of the earth. Civil rulers have no rights of control over, or of interference with religious matters.

(D) General

1. Scripture teaches a recent origin for man and the whole creation.

2. The days in Genesis do not correspond to geologic ages, but are six [6] consecutive twenty-four [24] hour days of Creation.

3. The Noachian Flood was a significant geological event and much (but not all) fossiliferous sediment originated at that time.

4. The “gap” theory has no basis in Scripture.

5. The view, commonly used to evade the implications or the authority of Biblical teaching, that knowledge and/or truth may be divided into “secular” and “religious,” is rejected.

6. No apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.

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